It is difficult to have patience with people who complain about the erosion of their personal freedoms when governments are finally taking action to stop the destruction of our planet’s habitability. Allowing the fossil fuels-powered Industrial Revolution to kick into high gear with coal, oil and gas generation of electricity and gas-powered transportation was a huge mistake. It violates the physical laws that govern our world. Even readers who, like Donald Trump, believe global warming is a Chinese hoax, don’t protest the laws of gravity by jumping off cliffs.
Burning fossil fuels releases carbon that had been safely sequestered beneath the earth’s surface for hundreds of millions of years. That carbon stays in the atmosphere for hundreds, maybe thousands of years preventing increasing amounts of the sun’s energy from being reflected back into space.
The fastest possible transition to renewable energy sources will allow us to preserve the benefits of the Industrial Revolution without killing our planet.
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Steven Lesh
East side
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